'leaves and eats shoots': Direct terrestrial feeding can supplement invasive red swamp crayfish in times of need

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Grey, Jonathan ^a,b   Jackson, Michelle C ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; KENYA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT LEAF; PROCAMBARUS CLARKII; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SHOOT; SPECIES INVASION; SUPPLEMENTATION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; BIOMASS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISOTOPE LABELING; KENYA; LAKES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT SHOOTS; WETLANDS;

ASTACOIDEA; PROCAMBARUS CLARKII;

EID: 84864531132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042575     Document Type: Article

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